3m children with disability out of school.
“Three million is a large number and should call for concern, because these are children who deserve quality basic education,” said Deji Ademefun, national programme manager for JONAPWD,
an association representing more than 25 million people nationwide with different forms of disability. Among an estimated 10 million children reported out of school in Nigeria by the UN Children’s Fund, more than 3m of them are children with disabilities because “school environments are not inclusive and accessible” to them, says the Joint National Association’s of Persons with Disabilities, JONAPWD. “Three million is a large number and should call for concern, because these are children who deserve quality basic education,” said Deji Ademefun, national programme manager for JONAPWD, an association representing more than 25 million people nationwide with different forms of disability.
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